SCENARIST Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

scenarist

noun

Definition of scenarist

as in scriptwriter

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Recent Examples of scenarist Liberal scenarists will be left wondering what if, though, as Congresswoman Katie Porter will end up notching more than 400,000 votes — enough, potentially, to have given Steyer the win had the fellow liberal Democrat dropped out. — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 10 June 2026 The scenarist of the eternal frontier first had to get there. — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023 Presumably these dynamics played better in scenarist Sarah Alderson’s original novel (which is set in Lisbon rather than Split). — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 3 Mar. 2022 McCarthy merely affects sociological seriousness by collaborating with French screenwriter Thomas Bidegain, the scenarist of Jacques Audiard’s 2009 social-justice movie A Prophet, a precursor to Hollywood’s blame-mass-incarceration trend. — Armond White, National Review, 28 July 2021

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Noun

The goal every amateur scriptwriter had written, and then thrown in the bin for not being quite spectacular enough.

— Adam Hurrey, New York Times, 17 July 2026
Shanghainese scriptwriter Zhang interwove her personal experience into the script, with more than 50% of the dialogue spoken in the Shanghai dialect.

— Jenny S. Li, Variety, 12 June 2026

Definition of scriptwriter

Noun

MobLand showrunner and The Agency co-creator Jez Butterworth created the project alongside his brother, The Agency co-creator and Edge of Tomorrow screenwriter John-Henry Butterworth, as well as The 100 producer Georgia Lee.

— Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 22 July 2026
Yeung is known as a screenwriter with credits including Hong Kong Family, which was selected at the 27th Busan International Film Festival, and award-winning short films Liu Yang He and Wild Child.

— Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 22 July 2026

Definition of screenwriter

Noun

The theater was built by songwriter, dramatist and playwright Arthur Hammerstein to honor his father, Oscar Hammerstein I, and opened as Hammerstein’s Theater in 1927.

— Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 22 May 2026
In transcripts of hearings of the notorious House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), Garber finds an upwelling of voices from the literary past, among them Christopher Marlowe, the revenge dramatist Thomas Kyd, and, from first to last, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Shakespeare.

— Charlie Tyson, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2026

Definition of dramatist

Noun

Clearly, by now — that is, 1835 — science had done enough to prove itself in the eyes of the litterateurs.

— Thomas Moynihan, Big Think, 7 Mar. 2025
The book was first published anonymously, and its authorship is consequently uncertain, though usually attributed to a minor poet and litterateur named Wu Cheng’en.

— Washington Post, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2021

Definition of litterateur

Noun

Essentially the marker version of eyeliner, liquid liner in felt-tip pen form offers a firm applicator that helps create clean lines.

— Marci Robin, Allure, 24 July 2026
Davidson is accused of attempting to steal 10 THC vape pens from Liles and threatening the use of a firearm, according to court records.

— Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 23 July 2026

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